Aerostar International Inc S-60A
N3604Q is an Aerostar International Inc S-60A, a balloon with no engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerostar International Inc
- Model
- S-60A · all S-60As and related versions
- Serial number
- S60A-3120
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A40F3F (octal 51007477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · June 26, 1989
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00054611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shumate Kenneth W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3202 Kelvington Dr
Orlando, FL 32810-4314
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3604Q, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Shumate Kenneth W, an individual, certificate issued February 4, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated June 26, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S60A-3120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3604Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A23-24 (serial MA242, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N3604Q: Accident on July 10, 1987 at Russellville, AR: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A23-24 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC87LA132 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data